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CORRESPONDENCE lectual life in this country. like William Greider, Lori...
...Instead, a work of fiction...
...Mandle fails to re- Is Good for ject...
...tion of the Seattle anti-WTO demon- fits from both advancing productivity What the globalization protesters strators, but I continue to believe that and increased global sales...
...Wilpert technology...
...Similar studies reCh...
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...doing this they at best are risking the and I thoroughly enjoyed it...
...His latest book is There Is a ference to most of us...
...he creates a school of his own...
...line says, "Building on what already for encountering positively the chal- Another point...
...If ence point in the opposite direction...
...The writer works for Bread for the I found the feature article by Jay R. Finally, the article appears to identiWorld, a Christian antihunger lobbying Mandle ["Trading Up," June 2] a great fy "improvements in overall human organization...
...But is it tagonists, without much regard for a questionable assumptions, and he not true that any work setting forth linear chronological sequence...
...Your parting IACS can also be a valuable resource and who decides...
...If Catholic ["Scout's Honor"] and the June 16 edi- O'Brien's article that Leahy, like schools cherish the values of faith, torial comment in the Correspondence Cuomo, has a passion for Teilhard de hope, and love, and public schools section on the case of James Dale and Chardin...
...Trade strictions of local laws governing the My view is that international trade means more jobs in industries that environment, workplace safety, or is good for the poor because it pro- successfully export, but reduced emrights...
...Discounts 5 percent, 3 times...
...I was also saddened not to find thing New," June 2] drawing attention lieve is an inexorable process driven the word "justice" anywhere in the to the projected Institute for Advanced by the determination of capital to max- text...
...El that are not known, cannot be known, they had their first erotic encounter, are and which, in any case, if they were surprised by a robber, who murders F. Gonzalez-Crussi, pathologist and writer, known, would probably make no dif- them...
...But we know, not fail to evoke the somber links be- CORRESPONDENCE of course, that this is just a manner of tween eroticism and death...
...Only in counand financial institutions have already tries in transition from communism made this linkage by trying to disman- did the rate increase...
...and the need fight against impoverishment...
...AIMEE MOISO Globalization & the poor sons why such rules cannot be Silver Spring, Md...
...Similarly, there is a table...
...We are, of course, quoting As a former private school and curhttp://www.worldbank.org...
...spond to Michael McGough's article What disturbs me is that leading GEORGE AND ELLEN CURRAN "God and Man at Prep School" [May spokespersons in the antiglobalization Glen Mills, Pa...
...the need for global cap- should be seen as a weapon in the steadily increased...
...sons it did not sell...
...The bipartisan Hunger Relief your remarks that the kind of research note that "disruptions must be manAct would remove some outdated and reflection envisaged for the insti- aged in order not to burden those and unreasonable barriers to the food tute must embrace such things as the least able to adjust...
...That cult art of the novel...
...associated with increased income inFor example, he mentions the need for equality...
...EARL REICHERT ly billing available for repeat advertisers...
...The conflates arguments against corporate propositions on being dead, whether novel thus acquires not merely a visual globalization with antiglobalization in philosophical, theological, or scientific, quality, but a distinctly cinematographic general...
...Commonweal 30 July 14, 2000...
...assessing the average level of develJim Grace, who has already won many Grace cannot tell us what being dead opment in a society, they are not adeliterary awards, reasserts himself this means...
...JAY R. MANDLE admired could be counted on both ues to the school, but, if the instituhands...
...scophcr Ruddy trade, but, as Mandle himself sug- ject the argument that globalization is gests, there is merit to these criticisms...
...Every sign of unjust discrimi- Burke, Va...
...tinue deserving praise for a long time...
...Because of the latter, I suppose, I response to criticism about the tent on shielding themselves from have always followed politics closely...
...As a long-time reader of Commonweal, adopted faster...
...Im- flection long after the book has been put capita GNP and the HDI are good for ages are colorful, evocative, forceful...
...line on the front cover, "Why Global- Neither I nor the protesters nor a lot A better idea ization Is Good for the Poor...
...I learned from reading that vision to its students...
...The style is the reader by the deployment of pow- cator) with higher per capita exports...
...My point is that other way around...
...But this that high exports caused the higher ly saying, perhaps we could have a should be done without holding trade GNP and HDI...
...All this having been said, it ocCatholic Studies[IACS...
...entails social and environmental costs, Trading up...
...CORRESPONDENCE lectual life in this country...
...It shows a reduction in the poverspond to their critique...
...Interestingly, the `Young tle most domestic regulations...
...question of James Dale's qualifications Phenomenon of Man many times...
...I am sixty- The mission statements so popular well-being of those in desperate need, four years old and have lived twenty- among these schools are generally and at worst are supplying cover for seven years in a suburb of Washington, bland and indistinct and composed in protectionists in the United States in- D.C...
...The story, which forms the sus- this "beyond...
...To the Editors time, I hope the new institute can cat- I think he misreads the intent of the alyze creation of a genuine theology anti-World Trade Organization Short & sweet of culture that can bridge the gulf be- demonstrators in Seattle and the antiThe unsigned "Et Cetera," "Message in tween an educated grasp of Christian International Monetary Fund/World a Bottle" [June 16], is a literary gem...
...Then, the (Continued from page 4) speaking, since there is no possible reader is presented with a series of griplearning here...
...we shall perceive absolutely nothing of by 1995...
...for several rea- Pope John Paul II and others...
...The group exchanges Workshop messages dealing with articles and topics DISCIPLESHIP AND DIVIDED LOYALTIES is an intensive exploration of the obstapresented in the magazine...
...sitivity...
...like William Greider, Lori Wallach, As someone who has worked in the and Ralph Nader as unpersuasive as I 1el area of Catholic theology for some find his selective economic data table...
...Mystics and ascetics have rot and deliquesce, incongruously been telling us for ages that the goal of frozen in a gesture of caress that canlife is to learn how to die...
...Both make oppose is the special rights and privi- "one element that links these groups available more goods and services leges accorded to corporations that or- is the belief that international trade is than would be the case in their abdinary citizens do not have, such as injurious to the poor and of benefit sence...
...day...
...Theologians reduction in poverty was greatest in Certainly those who protest corpo- Revisited East Asia, where trade growth was Sccphen Papc rate globalization are critical of free Edward Oaken the most dramatic...
...realm of religion, or the unforgiving, one that, in my view, is going to con- Mandle's argument that free trade pitiless spotlight of biomedical science...
...In the process, he fails to adis necessarily a work of fiction...
...Trade raises a society's income, borne by the entire community, not by driving this form of corporate global- permitting increased wages for work- its most vulnerable members...
...Senator Leahy is one...
...Never...
...Mandle's comments works is the best way to include the lenges of a church opening up to the about "unrestrained activity of finanpoor in the prosperity enjoyed by the non-European parts of the globe...
...aging capital flows in terms of the working families put food on the Finally, I could not agree more with common good...
...Technique is not condition: to be by nature curious, and is, the HDI (and per capita GNP) of a the least of his accomplishments, and to be condemned never to know...
...Readers interested in looking governments to aid workers in mak- at the figures for themselves can find Commonweal 2 9 July 14, 2000 them in "Assessing Globalization" at nation in their regard should be Prep schools & God the World Bank's web site, avoided...
...Curiously, his as its central theme the condition of this comparison seems out of place: arguments end up being nearly as being dead, will inevitably foray into Grace is not classed with any literary critical of free trade as those of the sothe arid plains of metaphysics, the lofty school...
...its foundation imize profit...
...country can appear higher than it is if this novel displays it to the point of vir- We cannot even imagine, let alone see, the upper and middle classes are largtuosity...
...Advance "They [homosexuals] must be accept- ical programs, there would be much payment required...
...He finds the that those who demonstrated against agree on as the goal of Catholic intel- "left-leaning critics of globalization" (Continued on page 28) Commonweal 4 July 14, 2000 haps a metaphysician, since it belongs dle-aged zoologists, husband and wife, other mystery-will be wondrously ento that species to discourse on things on a sentimental trip to the beach where hanced...
...This is one of the quate for determining the real level of time as supremely skilled in the diffi- infinite contradictions of the human poverty in a particular country...
...Former tion does not elicit a common vision Gays & the scouts New York Governor Mario Cuomo is from its faculty, it will not convey Having read both the May 19 editorial another...
...Finally, not all interna- I thank Gregory Wilpert and Martin tem of income maintenance for worktional trade is necessarily free...
...In this booming economy, self cannot flourish...
...Each, however, is also disrupthe ability to move to any part of the primarily to the wealthy...
...schools' vacuous elitism...
...faith and so much of the secular and Bank demonstrators in Washington...
...Quality subsidy publisher accepting manCommonweal is sponsoring an e-mail uscripts...
...But even the IMF and the WTO...
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...World Bank data, based on 60,000 in- for international agreements in envi- I also called for policies to reduce terviews with poor people in sixty de- ronmental protection and worker currency and financial market specuveloping countries, state that the poor rights...
...Profit itself, of course, is curs to me that you should offer an needs to be given wide attention and not sinful...
...Church, paragraph 2358...
...10 percent, 6 times...
...I don't think there the globalization of corporations on turn is the only way to tackle the in- is any way to avoid these realities, but the corporations' own terms...
...Some faculcompetition in order to earn monopo- The number of politicians I have truly ty members may bring their own vallistic profits...
...Furthermore, according to Story there is, nonetheless: two mid- death itself, but our vision of life-that the World Bank itself, the worldwide Commonweal 28 July 14, 2000 poverty rate has held steady in the ing transitions as countries develop ers...
...HELEN M. HARVEY alienated intellectual world of our They would indeed like to close down Brooklyn, N.Y...
...is good for the poor rests on a table Being Dead is all of this, as com- His novel does what only the highest that correlates higher per capita GNP pounded by the craft and the imagina- form of literature can do: it mesmerizes and HDI (Human Development Indition of a masterful novelist...
...That is why they have years...
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...The article says that Leahy is adhere to the values of democracy the Boy Scouts of America, we have to a voracious reader, was a close friend and citizenship, what values do indemake a brief comment...
...C L ASS I F I E D Nowhere in the initial editorial or in As Joseph Brodsky once said, "If we the editorial reply was there any men- chose our leaders on the basis of their RATES: $1.10 per word...
...For information and apHappy e-mailing...
...As I read tive, creating innocent victims...
...ization would only pay more careful the third world, and to negotiate labor Mandle does not provide any proof attention to what its critics are actual- and environmental standards...
...wait for new global rules to be adoptlend a helping hand...
...Or, perhaps there GREGORY WILPERT defending trade does not make it necare other more important intervening New York, N.Y...
...And the tone reminiscent of Alain Robbe-Gril- dress the demonstrators' real targets, converse is also true: any novel taking let and the roman du regard...
...In short, what they oppose is motes growth, and that growth in ployment in others...
...There, the cadavers slowly World Elsewhere (Riverhead...
...No one can...
...I am not of other people would agree with that Thank you for your editorial ["Some- opposed to globalization, which I be- view...
...trade for the same reason that I supsuch as Japan, China, and the "Asian My paper acknowledged that the port such programs for workers who tigers" have had tremendous success people who demonstrated in Seattle lose their jobs because of advances in with international trade without it did not speak with one voice...
...not an anthology of religious medita- flashbacks to the earlier life of the pro- His argument on poverty relies on tions...
...The whole of Henri Nouwen, and has read The pendent schools invoke...
...A novel: not a technical, biomedical ing, and frightening...
...The article says that the the bank...
...Or is he perhaps a the dunes...
...called "antiglobalizers...
...justice of mass poverty in the third I do think that the costs should be It is the IMF and the WTO that are world...
...BERNARD COOKE world's poor should not be asked "to it's unthinkable that we should not San Diego, Calif...
...The reader is therefore ping still-lifes, all rendered with ex- the World Trade Organization, the Inprepared to hear solemn speeches on quisite art, in which the inanimate ternational Monetary Fund, and the resignation or sober exhortations to for- bodies are gradually dissolved, returned World Bank last November and April titude, when, surprise!, the lowermost to dust, devoured by crabs and seagulls, were diverse...
...The dead couple are left lying in lives in Chicago...
...A critic would be misguided of the victims' daughter to drown her countries, and in the world...
...How other hope: that such high-level reflec- nance, rather than the traditional true...
...Techglobe, to invest irresponsibly, to de- them, both Wilpert and McLaughlin nological change creates new opportumand access without suffering the re- share this attitude...
...I MARTIN KILBRIDGE to be a scout leader seems to boil heard Cuomo once state that he kept a Rochester, N.Y...
...Instead, he criti- the Poor ty rate in East Asia, South Asia, cizes environmentalists and labor Jay Mandle Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, unions for linking regulation with free and the Middle East/North Africa betrade...
...If not now, ed," but it does not deal with the reawhen...
...ization, by making sure that third- Wilpert claims that World Bank world governments implement "ne- data show that the "worldwide poveroliberalism" as their guiding social and ty rate has held steady in the past ten economic policy...
...down to his ability to perform in view copy of Teilhard's The Divine Milieu on of his homosexual orientation...
...Words hit erful images, which in turn force re- The problem is that while both per their target directly and unerringly...
...nities, but shuts down others...
...15 percent, 12 times...
...Unfortunately, good steps pend- tion on Christian thought can be alert production-consumption relation (and ing in Congress are in danger of being to the richness of Latino and Latin surely not demand), drives the marlost to end-of-the-year budget hag- American theology, which is only be- ket...
...But to subordinate every- open forum on the issue of globalizasupport...
...It seems corpses, a few disjoined memories of tistics is the growing disparity bewrong to judge Being Dead by its story- their lives, and the desperate attempt tween rich and poor in these telling...
...For some years I tried to sell thing else to it may well approach the tion in the light of Catholic social the idea of a national high-level "structures of sin" so often decried by teaching...
...12-word minition of the Catholic church's teaching: reading experience and not their polit- mum...
...And against this Along with this oversimplification, work, not a philosophical treatise, and awe-inspiring background, there are Mandle commits several other errors...
...Society as a whole-in the being "free" since they extensively maintains that I oversimplify the posi- case of trade, the global society-beneprotected their own markets...
...his desk and reread it frequently...
...essary to be a neoliberal defender of variables, ones that have to do with unregulated markets...
...Neither piece of legis- arts, literature, and the professions...
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...In my experience, private nondemovement advocate a shift to greater nominational schools exist simply to self-sufficiency, although both eco- Leahy's reading list educate the wealthy while offering nomic theory and empirical experi- Dennis O'Brien's article, "Vermont's little coherent moral guidance...
...All expenses paid for persons whose applications are accepted...
...The full title reads: Being Dead: life forms of the seashore, in a specta- it easy for him to criticize their supA Novel...
...And by art- ratio between the incomes of the plot, the pace of its development, its cli- fully arranging all this, the novelist world's richest 20 percent and of the max and denouement, or the expecta- seems to tell us that, if we pay close at- world's poorest 20 percent was 30:1 in tions or surprises that it may afford the tention to the surroundings of death, 1960, that ratio increased to over 70:1 reader...
...At the site, from the Catechism of the Catholic rent Jesuit school teacher, I must reclick on "briefing papers...
...lation, to support workers who are generally feel that they are worse off If the defenders of corporate global- dislocated as industry takes root in now than they were before...
...But he immediately line on the front of the jacket makes it tunnelled by insects, reclaimed by the oversimplifies their positions, making all clear...
...cause of how they do it, who benefits, working poor [June 16...
...agile, precise, and vigorous...
...But there is no discussion of the gling...
...But why not try stamp program...
...More subjective ital market regulation...
...discussion group...
...In actuality, international trade tween 1990 and 1998...
...circumstances of culture, geography, The author replies: I support job retraining and a sysand/or history...
...If it is able to accomplish this, the the WTO, and perhaps the Bank and institute can truly create common the Fund as well, not so much because The working poor ground within the church and be- of what these institutions do, but beThree cheers for your editorial on the tween the church and "the world...
...If it succeeds it can help realize much but subordinates these to the appar- In his article on globalization and the of what Christopher Ruddy and his ently overriding values he sees in in- poor, Jay R. Mandle acknowledges sympathetic critics [see same issue] ternational trade...
...I have in front of me the most become the primary objects of criticism Globalization recent World Bank study on the subfor the protesters...
...405, New York, NY 10115...
...In Leahy" [June 161, was very interesting there is a vision, it is an afterthought...
...Now I am glad that Mandle concedes that globalization it did not, for the IACS is a better idea...
...MARTIN MCLAUGHLIN Catholic "think tank...
...cle that is at once grandiose, fascinat- posed views...
...Rather than a threat, globalization past ten years, even though trade has economically...
...While the who concentrated his attention on the existential anguish in sex...
...The McLaughlin for their stimulating re- ers who are dislocated by expanding most successful exporting countries, sponses to my article...
...What is masked by these stamore modest function here...
...to prevent these disruptions in the lation would come close to breaking without this interaction, theology it- first place...
...An- cial managers" suggest that global fimajority of their fellow citizens...
...disappointment-especially the head- well-being" with economic growth...
...Discounts and monthed with respect, compassion, and sen- less grief on earth...
...But the novelist comes er or doing better than the upper and taining framework, and the very raison by and sets about collating a criminal middle class of a comparably poor d'etre of the traditional novel, takes on a act, two victims, their decomposing country...
...hostage to those talks...
...Perhaps it was the real debate on the issue...
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